A Day with the Cow Column in 1843

Versions of
A Day with the Cow Column
by Jesse Applegate

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"Without question the best bit of literature left to us by any participant in the pioneer movement, and dealing with that movement," per Philip H. Parrish's review in Oregon Historical Quarterly v34 n4 (1934). It "ranks as a western classic" per Alfred Powers in History of Oregon Literature. Published in various places.

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Versions of A Day with the Cow Column include:

In The Overland Monthly, Vol. 1, Iss. 2 (1868)
Read before the Oregon Pioneer Association in 1876 (and included in its Transactions)
Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 1/A Day with the Cow Column in 1843 (1900)
In The Oregon Trail and Some of Its Blazers by Maude A. Rucker (1930)
Book edited by Joseph Schafer (Caxton Club, 1934; limited run of 300) IA
- Book also contains narrative of Applegate's nephew Jesse A., Recollections of My Boyhood.
Ye Galleon Press (1990)

Reviews edit

Discussed & excerpted in Powers' History of Oregon Literature, ch. 23.
Philip H. Parrish, Oregon Historical Quarterly Vol. 34 No. 4 (1934)
The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Dec., 1934), p. 233